The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-10-13

selves not to vote for any candidate
unleS the candidate was In IA
yor of paying the Government
debt IN greenbacks. What was the ne.
| suit? When the Democratic Convan.
ton met, as il did shortly afterwards IL
| the City of New York, there wa
q greenback plank put in their plat
form, but they nominated q hard
money candidate in Horatio Seymour.
Thus the party was on the fence. Al
this convention the women presented q
petition. / was a delegate. If the
negro could vote, we women wanted to
also. We wanted some of the good
things. When the petition was pre-
sented the Secretary of the convention
acted in jolly manner. The petition
was tabled, and there it has slept ever
since. Why was the petition Of igno-
rant workingmen respected, when
ours, that was framed by
minds as good as any in the
United States Senate, was utterly ig-
nored. 1t was because they wanted the
Workingmen's vote. We had no vote,
so we were laughed at. The Republi-
alluded to the question. They nomin-
ated General Grant, soldier, a man
with no opinion. He was the My
General in the army who had ever
crossed the Mason and Dixon line, who
had not been accused of stealing cot
ton. He had no financial enterprise,
he did not want to steal. If the Re
publicans had nominated a statesman
instead of hero, he would have been
defeated. Now the negro and Irish
men will work peacefully together.
Forty years ago an Irish
men would throw bricks at the negro
if they were put to work together. It
is different now, the negro is protected
by the Republican law. A negro was
admitted to practice law at Washing
ton BelYa Lockwood was refused,
but after three years. hard struggling,
President Hayes issued an order for the
judges to allow women the same priv
ilegeS in that matter as men. Why
did they accept the negro at first and
refuse the white woman, because the
negro was citizen and the judges
were afraid of impeachment if they re-
fused. Woman had no rights.
at Leavenwerth, in 1865, there was
a meeting gotten up by the negroes on
the 1st of August. A poster was
printed, giving names of a num-
Der who would address the
meeting. The Governor, the Mayor
and others. The day came. was
there. They asked me to deliver an
dOuIOo6s Il dSkCO WucI0 OIO 6pOdhSIS
were. They were not there. Why?
Because the negro had no vote. In
1870, after the negro had vote, there
was another celebration in the same
city, the Mayor, Governor and all were
there. Why? Because the negro
could vote, and their vote has elected
or defeated every Mayor in that city
since. They want the negro vote, and
will do anything for it.
In California in 1851 the negro pre-
scented a petition to the State LegiS-
lature asking for the right to sue and
be sued and the right to testify. The
petition was thrown out of the window
in 1871. The negro presented
another petition to the California Leg
islature. This petition asked that
negro children be admitted to the
schools, a law was passed at once
granting the request. The negro could
vote in 1871 and they were honored; in
1861 they had no vote, they did not
they must hold the negro vote The
Democrats are beginning to learn that
the negroe votes count and Demo
crat President appointed one register
of deeds of the District of Columbia.
There is no place but is open to the
blacklist negro, while women are not
spoken of nice like the negro, Irish
man or Dutchman. We are claSSed
with idiots, criminals, Cinnamon and
jeff Davis. None of us can vote. /
will speak again tomorrow, and will
answer Senator Ingalls, before 1 leave
the city.
After Miss Anthony concluded, Mrs.
Simpson again favored the audience
with musical selection. Announce
ments were then made for to-day and
the meeting adjourned until 2 p. m.
this afternoon.